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China May Execute SARS Quarantine Violators
WashingtonPost.com ^ | May 14, 2003

Posted on 05/14/2003 9:02:54 PM PDT by Sweet_Sunflower29

China has said it will execute or award a jail sentence of up to life imprisonment for anyone violating quarantine and intentionally spreading SARS.

The supreme court and the country's top prosecutor laid down the punishment in an interpretation of laws on hindering the prevention or treatment of sudden disease outbreaks and other disasters, the Xinhua news agency said late on Wednesday.

"Intentionally spreading sudden contagious disease pathogens, endangering public security or serious personal injury, death or heavy loss of public or private property will be punishable by from 10 years to life in prison or the death penalty," the state agency said.

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TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: china; sars
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1 posted on 05/14/2003 9:02:54 PM PDT by Sweet_Sunflower29
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To: Sweet_Sunflower29
This is deadly series!
2 posted on 05/14/2003 9:03:51 PM PDT by Travis McGee (----- www.EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com -----)
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To: FL_engineer; flutters
PING!
3 posted on 05/14/2003 9:04:51 PM PDT by Calpernia (www.HelpFeedaChild.com)
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To: Sweet_Sunflower29; zook
China has said it will execute or award a jail sentence of up to life imprisonment for anyone violating quarantine and intentionally spreading SARS.

FYI.....BUMP

4 posted on 05/14/2003 9:20:34 PM PDT by JulieRNR21 (Take W-04........Across America!)
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To: JulieRNR21
Taking a lesson from Fidel and his AIDS patients, eh?

yitbos

5 posted on 05/14/2003 9:45:26 PM PDT by bruinbirdman (Cut government spending)
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To: Sweet_Sunflower29
On the one hand, we have reports that supposedly SARS is under control in China, and that new infection rates are going down. On the other hand, we have pronouncements from the Chinese government that anyone caught breaking quarantine or "intentionally infecting" other people will be punished by death.

Somehow these two things don't seem to fit together. If SARS is under control why make such Draconian rules?
6 posted on 05/14/2003 9:48:01 PM PDT by Billy_bob_bob ("He who will not reason is a bigot;He who cannot is a fool;He who dares not is a slave." W. Drummond)
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To: Billy_bob_bob
RE #6

SARS could pick up in the country side while it may be slowing down in big cities. Can't take the chance of SARS picking up again in the rural area, I guess. It would be an international embarrassment to Chinese regime, which it cannot stand.

No more black eye to the reigme, due to SARS.

7 posted on 05/15/2003 3:41:10 AM PDT by TigerLikesRooster
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To: Sweet_Sunflower29
It certainly would help stop the spread of SARS. Isn't it nice to have China as our largest trading partner?
8 posted on 05/15/2003 6:59:04 AM PDT by AdA$tra (Tagline maintenance in progress......)
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To: Sweet_Sunflower29
If AIDS patients had been quarantined twenty or so years ago that disease might be a thing of the past by now......
9 posted on 05/15/2003 7:00:25 AM PDT by buffyt (Can you say President Hillary, Mistress of Darkness? Me Neither!!!!!!!!!!!!!)
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To: AdA$tra
A common error...Canada is the largest trading partner of the US. It just seems to be China.
10 posted on 05/15/2003 7:09:38 AM PDT by xp38
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To: Sweet_Sunflower29
leave it to the commies to use death as their answer.

China is one sick country. Any American that trades with or buys from or works with them, helps the RED CHINESSE communist enemy.
11 posted on 05/15/2003 7:12:32 AM PDT by TLBSHOW (the gift is to see the truth)
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To: TLBSHOW
The crazy thing is that the policy of shoooting could conceivably end up saving a lot of lives.
12 posted on 05/15/2003 7:25:04 AM PDT by TBall
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To: Sweet_Sunflower29; HighRoadToChina; PhilDragoo; soccer8; rightwing2
I saw this one coming a long time ago. They execute every chance they get, its another form of population reform.
13 posted on 05/15/2003 7:26:10 AM PDT by Enemy Of The State (Common sense is instinct, and enough of it is genius.)
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To: CathyRyan; Mother Abigail; Dog Gone; Petronski; per loin; riri; flutters; Judith Anne; ...
Ping.
14 posted on 05/15/2003 7:28:30 AM PDT by aristeides
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To: xp38
Funny, huh? 30 million Canadians buy more US goods than a billion Chinese. BTW, the WHO announced yesterday that Canada is now no longer considered a danger as far as SARS is concerned. In fact, it's pretty much done here, there's just a few cases left in hospitals.

If the Chinese gov't had not stuck their heads in the sand initially, denying and covering up, they wouldn't be in the this situation now, trying to make it look like they're serious about it with pronouncements like this.
15 posted on 05/15/2003 7:31:44 AM PDT by -YYZ-
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To: Sweet_Sunflower29
Back to the basics, test, isolate and slaughter.....yecch.....
16 posted on 05/15/2003 7:47:56 AM PDT by vetvetdoug
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To: aristeides
A terminal solution to Quarantine violaters.
17 posted on 05/15/2003 7:51:03 AM PDT by blam
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To: vetvetdoug; CathyRyan; Mother Abigail; Dog Gone; Petronski; per loin; riri; flutters; ...
Now Laurie Garrett is reporting on this: Death for SARS spreaders: China.
18 posted on 05/15/2003 7:51:12 AM PDT by aristeides
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To: blam
Final solution of the SARS problem.
19 posted on 05/15/2003 7:52:07 AM PDT by aristeides
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To: All
I wonder what they're going to do to this doctor: China Arrests Doctor for SARS Outbreak .
20 posted on 05/15/2003 8:09:25 AM PDT by aristeides
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